A 44-year-old man has broken the dubious record for the most amount of offences charged at one time in Cambridge.

Daniel Stainton, 44, of Aragon Close, King’s Hedges, Cambridge, was jailed after racking up a total of 26 offences for shoplifting and police noted how long it took the custody sergeant at Parkside police station to read out the charge sheet.

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Stainton appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on May 10 and was found guilty of 26 charges of theft from a shop. He was sentenced to 12 weeks for each charge, three to run consecutively and the rest concurrently, totalling 36 weeks imprisonment.

Police tweeted this was a "record at Parkside which took a while to read out!"

Officers at Parkside police station said on their Facebook page: “Following on from the trio who were charged with 19 thefts from a shop, a 44-year-old male from Cambridge has broken the record at Parkside for the most amount of offences charged at one time.